Botticelli October 2011

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Not at all sure that Cunobelinus passes the as-well-known-as-Botticelli rule, but OK…

IQ: Did you spurn advice to shave off your mustache to appeal more to the legislature?

[astorian]

@Sternvogel

IQ: Did you write the line “declining a Charlotte Russe, accepting a fig”?

IQ: Did you write a book called She Was Nice to Mice?

IQ: Did you host a show called Double Dare?

Not Ally Sheedy, author of “She Was Nice to Mice”

And not Alex Trebek, host of “Double Dare”

No idea about the Charlotte Russe quote, so ask a DQ.

[astorian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not at all sure that Cunobelinus passes the as-well-known-as-Botticelli rule, but OK…

IQ: Did you spurn advice to shave off your mustache to appeal more to the legislature?

Not… Adolf Hitler? If it’s not Hitler, take a DQ.

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

IQ: A great composer in your own right, did you teach composition to Dmitri Shostakovich?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQ: Did you spurn advice to shave off your mustache to appeal more to the legislature?

Dean Acheson, Truman’s SecState, who had an imperious manner and a moustache to match: http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1951/1101510108_400.jpg

DQ: Male?

IQ: Did you tell supporters, “Keep the faith, baby”?

IQ: Did you advocate for those who rebelled and took over the slave ship Amistad?

IQ: Did you warn Great Britain against permitting the Confederates to build commerce raiders there?

[AppallingGael]

IQ: Did you catch Nolan Ryan’s record-breaking fifth no-hitter?

IQ: Were you both a “merry man” and, centuries later, a henchman of “the Archer” in Gotham City?

IQ: Are you a Tarkington title heroine?

[astorian]

@Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela

IQ: A great composer in your own right, did you teach composition to Dmitri Shostakovich?

Ask a DQ… no idea on this one.

[astorian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

DQ: Male?

IQ: Did you tell supporters, “Keep the faith, baby”?

IQ: Did you advocate for those who rebelled and took over the slave ship Amistad?

IQ: Did you warn Great Britain against permitting the Confederates to build commerce raiders there?

Yes.

1. Male
   Not Adam Clayton Powell.

Not John Quincy Adams.
But I have no idea about who warned Britain about Confederate raiders. Ask a DQ.

Not

[astorian]

@AppallingGael

IQ: Did you catch Nolan Ryan’s record-breaking fifth no-hitter?

IQ: Were you both a “merry man” and, centuries later, a henchman of “the Archer” in Gotham City?

IQ: Are you a Tarkington title heroine?

Not Alice Adams.

Not Alan A Dale.
I don’t know who caught Nolan Ryan’s 5th no-hitter. Ask a DQ.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@astorian

…But I have no idea about who warned Britain about Confederate raiders. Ask a DQ.

Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. Minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James’s.

DQ: Real?

IQ: Was your first big role in Junebug?

IQ: Were you a longtime gossip columnist for Variety?

IQ: The mother of an even more famous fictional character, was your maiden name Grayson?

[AppallingGael]

@astorian

I don’t know who caught Nolan Ryan’s 5th no-hitter. Ask a DQ.

That was Alan Ashby, the Houston Astros’ regular catcher in 1981.

DQ: American?

[astorian]

1. Male
2. Real person
3. Not American

[astorian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. Minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James’s.

DQ: Real?

IQ: Was your first big role in Junebug?

IQ: Were you a longtime gossip columnist for Variety?

IQ: The mother of an even more famous fictional character, was your maiden name Grayson?

Not Amy Adams, and not Army Archerd.

I assume the Grayson name means she’s related to Robin… but I don’t know the name, so ask a DQ

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@astorian

…I assume the Grayson name means she’s related to Robin… but I don’t know the name, so ask a DQ

Good guess, but no, the former Amanda Grayson married Sarek of Vulcan and gave birth to Spock.

DQ: Living?

IQ: Was your ability to convincingly sneeze on cue featured on your show?

IQ: Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer, and later a Reconstruction-era governor?

IQ: Were you Peer Gynt’s mom and the subject of a dirge?

[astorian]

1. Male
2. Real person
3. Not American
4. No longer living

[astorian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Good guess, but no, the former Amanda Grayson married Sarek of Vulcan and gave birth to Spock.

DQ: Living?

IQ: Was your ability to convincingly sneeze on cue featured on your show?

IQ: Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer, and later a Reconstruction-era governor?

IQ: Were you Peer Gynt’s mom and the subject of a dirge?

I don’t any of these, so you have 3 DQs coming.

[Dead_Cat]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Good guess, but no, the former Amanda Grayson married Sarek of Vulcan and gave birth to Spock.

If I may comment as an interested observer, I detect a hint of double standards here from someone who complained about Shakespeare’s Cymbeline being the subject of the last round :). Both are easy if you know them, I suppose (I certainly didn’t, which is why I’m sitting out these games - I couldn’t hold a candle to you guys, if by some freak happenstance I won a game, I may as well just give you all the 20 DQs off the bat).

[Sternvogel]

@Sternvogel

IQ: Did you write the line “declining a Charlotte Russe, accepting a fig”?

The lyric is a rhyme with “This could be the start of something big”, the title of the one Steve Allen song (among the thousands he reputedly wrote) that an average person off the street might conceivably know.

DQ: European?

IQ: Does a statue of you stand outside the Hall of Engineering named for you on the Purdue campus?

IQ: Do you generally work aside Emily Saliers?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Dead_Cat

If I may comment as an interested observer, I detect a hint of double standards here from someone who complained about Shakespeare’s Cymbeline being the subject of the last round :). Both are easy if you know them, I suppose (I certainly didn’t, which is why I’m sitting out these games - I couldn’t hold a candle to you guys, if by some freak happenstance I won a game, I may as well just give you all the 20 DQs off the bat).

But it wasn’t “Shakespeare’s Cymbeline” who was the object of that round; it was that character’s real name, Cunobelinus, and I suspect (although I’m not trying to make a stink over it) that the latter name fails the as-well-known-as-Botticelli rule.

Anyway.

IQ: Was your ability to convincingly sneeze on cue featured on your show?
Alan Alda, on MASH*.

IQ: Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer, and later a Reconstruction-era governor?
Adelbert Ames.

IQ: Were you Peer Gynt’s mom and the subject of a dirge?
This is Aase, who got a melancholy but beautiful movement from Grieg’s suite all to herself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxjw6ZsHjNU

DQs:

Dead before 1900?
Political or military?

I’ll reserve one DQ for now.

New IQs:

IQ: Were you thrown a gold coin as a generous payment in your youth?

IQ: Were you a freedom fighter with a handsome face but no pulse?

IQ: Did Ben Stein write admiringly of you when almost no one else did?

[astorian]

@Sternvogel

The lyric is a rhyme with “This could be the start of something big”, the title of the one Steve Allen song (among the thousands he reputedly wrote) that an average person off the street might conceivably know.

DQ: European?

IQ: Does a statue of you stand outside the Hall of Engineering named for you on the Purdue campus?

IQ: Do you generally work aside Emily Saliers?

1. Male
2. Real person
3. Not American
4. No longer living
5. Not European

Not Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls.

As for Purdue… I know nothing of the campus or statue, but based on trivial knowledge, I’ll say… not Neil Armstrong?